Electrode welding-tip puller



June 17, 1941. R. H. TAYLOR ELEGTRODE WELDING-TIP FULLER Filed Sept. 21, 1940 M, WJ Ml 7 f M M o w o .1 ma u I ,A

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Patented June 17, 1941 A' 7 UNITED VELEo'rRolIJE WELDING-'rre PULLER RichardV Hall Taylor, Greens Farms, Conn., as-

signor to 'Electroloy Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., a' corporation of New Jersey` VApplikation september 21, 1940, serial No.l 357,827

claims.

The present invention is an electrode weldingtip puller intended for removing a welding-tip from the holder in which it is secured by reason of the fact that the tapered end of the tip is seated in a similarly tapered hole in the holder.

After a welding-tip has been used in welding operations, the tip is of course securely seated in the holder; andthe removal of theftip for renewal or for any other reason has been a more or less diiiicult operation. In practice, in removing welding tips from their holders, it has been customary either to twist them out with a Stillson wrench or heavy pliers, or to knock them out from the side with a cold chisel and hammer, or to remove them by other more or less violent methods. Any of these methods of removing a welding-tip from its holder is likely Vto and generally does distort the tapered hole in the holder, thereby making it necessary to remachine the tapered hole in the holder or discard the holder and install a new one, because it is important that the welding-tip shall make good mechanical and electrical contact with the holder.

The general object of the present invention is to provide an electrode welding-tip puller which is capable of gripping the welding-tip and pulling it out of the holder with a straight line movement without twisting and without deforming the tapered hole in the holder in whichthe tapered end of the tip has been seated.

The invention will be understood from the following description of a lpreferred embodiment thereof, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of the device in gripping engagement with a welding-tip, prior to the removal of the latter from its holder;` Fig. 2 is an elevation of the device, welding-tip and holder looking from the left side of Fig. 1, the electrode holder being shown partly in section; Fig. 3 is an elevation, similar to Fig. 2 (but with portions of the handle of the device omitted) after the device has performed its electrode pulling operation; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the line 4`4 in Fig.Y 3; Fig, 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-'5 in Fig. 4 on a somewhat larger scale, showing only the gripping jaws of the device and the disc secured thereto; and Fig. 6 is a fragmentary sectional elevation on the same scale as Fig. 5 and `from the same point of observationas Fig.Y 1, -showing the manner in which the gripping jaws are pivotally attached vto the pinching means. The same parts will be hereinafter referred to by the same reference characters.

In Figs. 1, 2 and 3 `of the drawing, there is shown an electrode holder 8 of usual form provided at its lower end with a tapered hole 9 adapted to receive the similarly tapered end of a welding-tip I0. As is customary the holder may be made of copper and the welding-tip I0 vof a suitable copper alloy.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the electrode welding-tip puller is shown in gripping contact with the welding-tip I0 preparatory to pulling it out of the holder 8. In Fig. 3 the puller is shown in actuated position after it has loosened the welding-tip in the holder 8.

The welding-tip puller is provided with gripping jaws I2 and I3 having inside surfaces which are slightly less than half a cylinder and have a radius-slightly greater than half the diameter of a standard welding-tip, said cylindrical surfaces being provided with two or more gripping ridges I5 (Figs. 5 and 6) having a radius slightly less than one-half the diameter of the weldingtip. It will be understood that the gripping jaws I2 and I3 are adapted to be slipped over a welding-tip, and that when they are forced toward one another (by the means about to be described) the gripping ridges I5 tightly grip and even slightly cut into the surface of the welding-tip. The gripping jaws I2 and I3 are rotatably mounted in a. manually operable pinching means of which a preferred form is shown in the drawing. The rotatable connection between the gripping jaws and the pinching means comprises studs I1 secured to and extending from thefback of each of the gripping jaws I2 and I3 and into holes in the end of the pinching means which are substantially in alignment when the jaws are in the position in which they grip the welding-tip. As shown in the drawing, the pinching means includes pinching members I9 and 20 which are pivotally connected to one another by a pin 2| passing through them, and are provided at their outer ends with holes which receive the studs I'I. The members I9 and 20 are relatively rocked on the pin 2l by handle members 23 and 24. As will be obvious from the drawing, the handle member 23 is pivotally connected to the member I9 by a pin 2B passing through both of these parts; handle member 24 is pivotally connected to the member 20 by a pin 21 passing through both of these parts; and the handle members 23 and 24 are pivotally connected to one another by a pin 28 which passes through both of these parts'. Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 show the device in the position in which the gripping of the welding-tip is eiected; and it will be obvious that at this time the pivot pin 28 is in alignment, or just beyond alignment, with the pins 26 and 2l; thereby providing a toggle effect which relieves the user from maintaining a tight grip upon the handle members 23 and 24 after the device has been applied to a welding-tip and moved to its gripping position.

A washer30 having a hole therein of a diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the weldingtip, is supported by the gripping jaws, the means.

of attachment being best shown in Fig. 5 from which it will be apparent that eachrgripping yjaw I2 and I3 is provided with a cylindrical cavity and a hole through each of which pass Vpins 32 and 33 the ends of which are tightly screwed into threaded holes at diametrically opposite jecting from` the back of each gripping jaw, the

points in the washer 30. The pins 32 and 33 vare provided with heads 34 and 35, of somewhat less diameter than the diameter of the cavities through which the pins pass; and between each head.34 and .35 and the bottom Yof the corresponding cavity, springs 31 and `38 are provided. Thus the washer 30 is movably held quite close to the gripping jaws I2 and I3 and in engagement with ,the outer ends of the pinching members I9 and 2B, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 6, when the device is applied to the end of a welding-tip and before it has been actuated to pull the tip, out of the holder in the manner which will now be described.

After the device has been applied to4 awelding-tip I in a holder 8 as shown inFigsJl and 2, the manually operable pinching means (which includes the pivotally connected members VI 9A and 2G and handle members 23 and 24) is moved to the position shown in Fig. 3 which bringscams 4i! and 4I Hformed on one side of the members VI9 and 2,!! into engagement with the washer 30.

This engagement of the cams 1I!! and A4I ,with the washer 3D results in forcing the .grippingjaws I2 and I3 away from the washer 3U which `remains stationary because it ,engages the bottom of the holder 8; and, because vthe jaws I2 and I3 are in tight gripping engagement with the welding-tip I0, the latter isfpulled out of the holder 8 with a straight line movement. Thus the welding-tip IG is removed fromV the holder 8 without deforming the tapered hole in the latter in which thetapered end of the tip has been seated. The tip Ill, having thus been loosened from the holder 8, may be taken out of the holder stil gripped by the gripping jaws I2 and I3, after which the tip maybe released by moving the handle members 23 and 24 away fromone another. V It will be understood that thev necessaryvrelative movement between Vthe washer 30 and the gripping jaws IEand I 3 during operation Vof the device is permitted by theY clearances between the pins 32 and V33 and the cavities and holes 'in the jaws I2 and I3, and byY theV fact that the pins 32 and 33 are located at opposite ends of the jaws VI2 and I3 and are connected to the washer 30 at diametrically opposite pointsas will be clear from Fig. 4.

Of course, the device shown in the drawing may be modified without departing Yfrom the spirit of the invention as defined in the claims hereto appended.'V

What is claimed is: Y

1. An electrode welding-tip puller comprising manually operable/pinching means, gripping jaws outer ends of said Vpinching means being provided 'with openings adapted to receive said studs whereby said gripping jaws are rotatably supported upon lsaid pinching means, a washer adapted to surround a welding-tip and lie against its holder, means for movably supporting said washer on'the outside of said .gripping jaws, and cams on said pinching means adapted to engage said washer and separate said washerand gripping jaws when saidA pinching vmeans is lswung about-,its pivotal connection with said gripping jaws. Y,

3. AnV electrode welding-.tip puller comprising `"manually, operable pinching means, gripping jaws adapted to engage a- 'welding-tip, means for pivotaily supporting; said gripping jaws Yupon said pinching means, aMwasher adapted to surround a welding-tip and lie against itsholder, a pin movablysupported Vin each gripping jaw and connectedto said washer, aspring cooperating with each of, said pins and the gripping jaw in which saidpin is supported, and cams on said`-pinch ing means adapted to engage said washer and separate said washer and gripping jaws when said pinching meansis swung about its pivotal connectipn with saidgrippingj aws.

4. An Aelectrode welding-'tip f:puller comprising manually operable vpinching means, Ygripping jaws adapted to engage a welding-tip, means for pivotailly supporting said gripping jaws upon said pinching means, a washer adapted to surround a welding-tip and -lieagainstits holder, a pin movably supportedV in each grippingjaw at opposite ends thereof `respectively' and ,connected to said washer at diametrically lopposite points, a spring -coQperating--with-each ofsaid'pins and the gripping jaw-infwhich said pin is supported for resisting separationgof"saidfwasher and gripping jawsfand cams on .said pinching means adapted toengage rsaid*,washer,-and separate said washer Vand .gripping fjawsfwhen ,said pinching meansis swung aboutfits pivotalconnection with saidgripping jaws. i 1 j 5.AnA elect-rode weldingftip puller comprising kpivotally connected pinching members, handle memberspivotally connectedthereto and to one anothenggrippingjaws' adaptedtoengage a weldingtip,-means for pivotally :supporting said gripping jaws -upon thefends of :saidipinching mem- .said pinchinggmeans -is swung-about its pivotal connection with saidgripping jaws.

RICHARD lHALL TAYLOR. 

